Careers

Be the responsible engineer for something real.

We hire engineers who want to own a whole machine, not a slice of a slide deck. We are a small founding team working on hard problems, and we ship hardware to the field. The team works on-site in Austin, Texas, and deploys with the equipment.

You will design and build forward-deployed, expeditionary equipment for autonomous systems. The work spans structures, power, thermal, and communications.

Open roles

Roles opening soon

Listings are being finalized. If you don't want to wait, write to careers@firstordereffects.com with a note about what you've built.

Who does well here

The people who do well here were the engineer for something that shipped. They treat analysis as a check on judgment, not a substitute for it. They can take a mission need and a date and reach confident decisions without a review board.

Direct applications: careers@firstordereffects.com